hi steph.great job writing down your food. I find it very useful to reflect on my day and write down what I have eaten feel free to have a read of my food diary too, I write alot of thoughts in there as well as food journal.

4pm: feeling 'snacky'- had a homemade coffee with one teaspoon nescafe gold blend, one teaspoon sugar and a vanilla flavoured 'coffee creamer' to go with it (around about 60 calories all up)

6:30pm: this is where I fell down. Had half a plate of steamed vegies like last night (carrots, peas, beans etc) and a serving size of lasagne. Lasagne was about 423 calories, vegies about 125- so around 548 cals. I ate the vegies first and then started eating the lasagne. I felt full halfway through the lasagne. I took a break, had a large glass of water. BUT I came back to the plate and ate the whole portion!

Now I feel overstuffed and full, like a big fat failure. All up I've had around 1950 calories today, but I only had 1400 yesterday. So that averages to about 1700 each day and according to calorieking that's about as many calories as I should be having. I should also note that I walked for about an hour and a half today and for about 45 minutes yesterday. So those extra 'exercise calories' cancel stuff out too...

I must try and focus on the positive and not go snacking now cos I feel like I've blown it a bit! Took me a while to gain weight, will take a while to lose weight.

Hey Steph, good work today. Don't beat yourself up to much over lapses - it's all part of the process. Just look at what happened and learn something for next time. Like what made you finish off the lasagne even though you were full? Is there some "rule" in the back of your head that you have to clean your plate? Is it just the flavour that you wanted more of? etc. Once you know what the cause was, you can start making plans to avoid it happening again.

35kg lost. (November 2005 - October 2006)15kg gained again (as at October 2010).Back to the drawing board - Let's do this thing!

Butterfly_Dawn wrote:Hey Steph, good work today. Don't beat yourself up to much over lapses - it's all part of the process. Just look at what happened and learn something for next time. Like what made you finish off the lasagne even though you were full? Is there some "rule" in the back of your head that you have to clean your plate? Is it just the flavour that you wanted more of? etc. Once you know what the cause was, you can start making plans to avoid it happening again.

Thanks Butterfly. Yeah I have been a member of the 'clean your plate' club which is annoying

Butterfly_Dawn wrote:Hey Steph, good work today. Don't beat yourself up to much over lapses - it's all part of the process. Just look at what happened and learn something for next time. Like what made you finish off the lasagne even though you were full? Is there some "rule" in the back of your head that you have to clean your plate? Is it just the flavour that you wanted more of? etc. Once you know what the cause was, you can start making plans to avoid it happening again.

Thanks Butterfly. Yeah I have been a member of the 'clean your plate' club which is annoying

Butterfly_Dawn wrote:Hey Steph, good work today. Don't beat yourself up to much over lapses - it's all part of the process. Just look at what happened and learn something for next time. Like what made you finish off the lasagne even though you were full? Is there some "rule" in the back of your head that you have to clean your plate? Is it just the flavour that you wanted more of? etc. Once you know what the cause was, you can start making plans to avoid it happening again.

Thanks Butterfly. Yeah I have been a member of the 'clean your plate' club which is annoying

So now I've had 1864 calories today. I have no idea how I managed to eat 1200 calories a day when I was 15 and first

'I have no idea how I managed to eat 1200 calories a day when I was 15 and first started dieting'

Just had a biggest loser bar 110

1974 calories in total today. However tomorrow I will just eat more lightly, I seem to be doing ok with eat more one day eat less the next day. If it averages to about 1700 each day I'm sticking to what I should be eating at calorie king

its great when you write things down, you can recognise your weakness's and when you tend to snack, or overeat. helps to make changes and improvements. keep going I also like to read what other people eat. I have always ahd wars with food, lolbeing a fat teen, and eating the same as all my friends, I always wondered why they were still slim, and then as I went thru life, always wondered what other normal people ate.

dragonfly wrote:its great when you write things down, you can recognise your weakness's and when you tend to snack, or overeat. helps to make changes and improvements. keep going I also like to read what other people eat. I have always ahd wars with food, lolbeing a fat teen, and eating the same as all my friends, I always wondered why they were still slim, and then as I went thru life, always wondered what other normal people ate.

Yeah it really does help to write things down. I read in the paper over the weekend that people who kept a food diary were 3 times as likely to lose weight/keep it off as those who didn't. So that's a good motivator, isn't it?

I found that these were fantastic at keeping hunger at bay, an hour after I ate these I didn't even want to eat dinner!

Dinner was: one carrot cut in half, covered with oil+garlic, one small piece pumpkin also covered with oil+garlic- I don't think there was a whole half tablespoon of oil but in worst case scenario I will estimate that they were 120 caloriesSmall amount of roast beef: maybe 200 calories

So yesterday I had about 1500 calories, much better! Out of curiousity I added up my calorie intake over the past 5 days and divided by 5 to get an average, and it was 1774 calories a day. Calorie king tells me I should be having 1731 cals per day with 45 minutes of walking. However I have been exercising on average more than an hour per day so I'm on track with my calories!